From: john williams (ducati900@bigpond.com)
Date: Sun Jan 26 2003 - 01:01:44 GMT
Hey DMB
I hadn't replied to Platts last post in that thread, I was still mulling
over the way I wanted to approach it.
I have to say I was quite amazed to be asked to keep politics out of it from
the only person here who appears to be running a political agenda, anyway,
whatever floats your boat. Maybe he meant don't name the politics.
Being told that my original post was treating MoQ like a leftist manifesto
reminded me of one of my favorite books though.
"And then, one thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been
nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to each other
for a change." (Hitchhikers)
I feel a lot like Jesus without the nails and the tree and the spear and
what not.
John from The Rock
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Buchanan" <DBuchanan@ClassicalRadio.org>
To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 9:46 AM
Subject: RE: MD DQ people
> John, Platt and everyone with feet:
>
> Platt said:
> I have no problem with your chosen worldview. Using government
> jackboots to impose that view on others is the problem.
>
> John said:
> Where did you ever get that idea? Collective improvement does not
> require jackbooting of any kind, the type of things I look for are
> Intellectual DQ solutions to the problems we all have in common, they're
> already happening, I reckon we should expand these occurrence and that we
> could come up with a template that would give us some thing to work with.
>
> John said:
> I thought your jackboot metaphor was interesting because I think of anyone
> with strong rightwing views is only a short trip to the shoe shop from
being
> a Fascist, only I wasn't going to let that out, I was going to keep it to
> myself.
>
> DMB says:
> Perhaps Platt doesn't know that in the Western world, big black boots,
> preferably Doc Martians, are part of the unoffical neo-Nazi uniform. So I
> think you're quite right, John. "Jackboots" are certainly associated with
> right-wingers. There's no doubt. Platt uses the phrase, I suspect, because
> he listens to G. Gordon Liddy, a fascists talk radio host who told his
right
> wing listeners that the police were nothing but "jackbooted thugs" and
> instructed his fans to shoot them in the head should they ever dare to
enter
> thier homes. This notion was widely circulated around the time of the
> Oaklahoma City Bombing by all kinds of right-wing extremists.
>
> Further, I agree with you about DQ people too. Pirsig's prime examples are
> Lincoln and Ghandi. Both of them did things to make millions more free. If
> that's not helpful, then nothing is.
>
> Say hello to the rock for me,
> DMB
>
>
>
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